“As a child when I lived in a small village in Spain, I always walked barefoot. The ground was dusty, and when I walked, my feet picked up the fine dust. They were coated with a dull layer of film, the colour of fog, like the feet of a plaster statue” — is how author and illustrator Sophie Benini Pietromarchi describes colours to her readers in her recently released, The Colour Book.

One of book’s sections collates objects that represent a colour. The author calls it our very own forest of colour